Chaos at Cologne/Bonn Airport: Majority of the flights deleted!

Chaos at Cologne/Bonn Airport: Majority of the flights deleted!

At Cologne/Bonn Airport, there is a chaos -like conditions after 61 out of 69 planned flights have to be canceled! People, keep yourself: A strike by the security staff has led to massive impairments in air traffic. Verdi, the union, had called up the employees for work to be relocated at short notice, which means that passengers should better rethink their travel plans. According to the current report of WDR , not only the flights are affected on Thursday, but also the security checks in the freight area, which bothers the entire goods traffic.

strike ensures massive cancellations

The strike begins at night and is supposed to end around midnight. An unmistakable impact of the strike: only a fraction of the flights can actually take place! Passengers who have booked a flight from or to Cologne/Bonn today must inquire with their airline whether their flight is still being made. "I assume that almost all flights will be canceled," warned Özay Tarim, union secretary of Verdi. The strip is already the third of this kind this year. Also the warning strikes already announced on Friday in Weeze and Dortmund show that the situation in air traffic is tense, such as tonight.de reported.

The tariff conflict revolves around the working conditions of around 25,000 employees who are responsible for security controls at the airports. Verdi demands more money and better remuneration for overtime, while employers have made an offer that is far from the union's demands. These clashes could be worsened even further, since further collective bargaining clamps have to take place in air traffic in parallel to this conflict.